Dopamine and Pain Sensitivity: Neither Sulpiride nor Acute Phenylalanine and Tyrosine Depletion Have Effects on Thermal Pain Sensations in Healthy Volunteers

• Susanne Becker ,

  * E-mail: susanne.becker@zi-mannheim.de

  Affiliations Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain and Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

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• Marta Ceko,

  Affiliation National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Mytsumi Louis-Foster,

  Affiliation Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain and Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Nathaniel M. Elfassy,

  Affiliation Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain and Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Marco Leyton,

  Affiliations Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Yoram Shir,

  Affiliation Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Petra Schweinhardt

  Affiliations Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain and Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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